Precipitation

This evening is expected the first significant snowfall for 2018. This is shown by the data of the National Institute of Metrology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Cold, rain and snow all over the country in the coming days. The sharp drop in temperatures will begin on Friday, NOVA reports.

The cold will continue in the coming days. At the end of the week, temperatures throughout the day will be negative, and in places will not exceed minus 5 degrees.

A giant winter “bomb cyclone” has walloped the U.S. East Coast with heavy snow and freezing cold that made for treacherous travel conditions and bone-chilling misery.

The United States remains in the grip of winter. Warnings of heavy snow storms have been issued for the southeastern parts of the country - from Virginia to Maine.

Snowfalls will resume and increase today, mainly in the southern half of Bulgaria. It will be mostly cloudy. It will snow in many areas. Only in the remote southeastern regions, it will initially rain, but the rain there will also transform into snow later.

From today cold, rain and snow is coming to every part of the country. A warning yellow code for expected heavy rainfall has been announced in four districts of southern and southeastern Bulgaria, agency BGNES reported.

Several hundred Romanians were blocked on Sunday at London Luton Airport due to unfavorable weather conditions, Romanian newspapers reported today.

Since British airports do not have snowmobiles, relying on the fact that on the archipelago is expected rain and not snow, several snowflakes have created chaos in air traffic, according to Romania Libera.

During the night the rainfall will stop everywhere and clouds over most areas will be reduced to clear weather. It will blow up to moderate wind from west to northwest. Minimum temperatures will be between minus 4 and 1 degrees, in Sofia minus 4 degrees, according to the forecast of NIMH-BAS.

Atmospheric pressure will continue to rise and will be higher than the average for December.

60 people have been examined in the Pirgov Hospital for the last 24 hours, about half of them have injuries due to slippery ice, reported the medical institution.

Experts advise people to be careful and avoid icy streets.

Today is expected to warm up, so in the afternoon hours the snow and ice will probably start to melt.

December will be colder than usual, according to meteorologists. Temperatures in the last month of the year will be slightly lower than climate norms. It will rain a lot more, reported the NIMH meteorologists at BAS Krassimir Stoev.